{"id":925744,"date":"2020-09-26T16:30:20","date_gmt":"2020-09-26T21:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=925744"},"modified":"2020-09-27T18:20:35","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T23:20:35","slug":"senator-huges-foolish-to-expand-mail-in-ballots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=925744","title":{"rendered":"Senator Huges: &#8216;foolish to expand mail-in ballots&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2020\/09\/hughes-initial-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-925745\" \/>LONGVIEW &#8212; A Gregg County Grand Jury indicted four defendants on election offenses earlier this week. Friday evening, State Senator Bryan Hughes told KTBB, &#8220;Mail-in ballots are prone to cheating, they are more prone to fraud than any other method of voting.&#8221; Gregg County Precinct 4 Commissioner Shannon Brown had 23 felony counts brought against him from the 2018 Democratic Primary, in all the 4 arrested in the alleged voter fraud scheme, had 134 felony counts against four defendants.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2020\/09\/Brown-Delivers-200x120.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-925747\" \/>The indictments cover a range of offenses including engaging in organized election fraud and fraudulent use of a mail ballot application. Senator Hughes went on to say, &#8220;Obviously folks over 65 and disabled folks need to have access to those [mail-in] ballots, but we also have to make sure they are secure.  This makes us realize how foolish this move is to expand mail-in ballots further.&#8221; In all other Gregg County precincts during the 2018 election, there was a total of 12 mail ballot applications requested based on a voter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s disability. In that same election cycle in Precinct 4, voters requested 366 ballots based on the voters\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 disabilities. Brown&#8217;s opponent beat him by more than 20 points in in-person early voting and election day ballots. The investigation showed 73% of these 366 mail ballot votes were cast for Brown, who ultimately won the election by five votes. According to county elections data, 69% percent of mail ballot applications for Brown\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s race were marked as being assisted by a third-party. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW &#8212; A Gregg County Grand Jury indicted four defendants on election offenses earlier this week. Friday evening, State Senator Bryan Hughes told KTBB, &#8220;Mail-in ballots are prone to cheating, they are more prone to fraud than any other method of voting.&#8221; Gregg County Precinct 4 Commissioner Shannon Brown had 23 felony counts brought against &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=925744\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Senator Huges: &#8216;foolish to expand mail-in ballots&#8217;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-925744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-02 22:13:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=925744"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":925748,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925744\/revisions\/925748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=925744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=925744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=925744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}